Potential compromise reached in Farmers' Market suspensions

A potential compromise has been reached in the controversy surrounding the Downtown Farmers' Market and vendors in Des Moines.

Farm Boys and another vendor were suspended from the market through August. A meeting was to take place toward the end of the eight week suspension.

That meeting has been moved up to either this week or next week, depending upon the availability of Farm Boys.

Glenn Lyons is the president and CEO of the Downtown Community Alliance.

He said the call was made to suspend the market due to weather for a few hours Saturday July 5 for the safety of marketgoers, vendors and market staff.

"We asked 200 vendors to stop selling and seek shelter and 199 of them agreed to do it. They may have been selling when we approached them to ask because as I say we were talking to people something after 7 as we were going up and down the street, but they agreed to stop selling," said Lyons.

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